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Quote I hope our team doesn't have any fill illusions about ourselves We could be playing one of the greatest teams of all time next meek Georgia's Vince Dooley following Ike 563 victory over Tulane with nerlda earning if ait IMirtijr SpOEtS Scoreboard 2-C Capoolo 1IM) for all the scores 275-1623 Anderson Jndcpcndcnt-Hlail Sun NOV 3 INS 1C Tim Ellerbee Sports Editor Bulldogs Trounce Tulane By A1 Muskewitz Staff rlMto hy rurfck Wrifkt Stacey Driver (21) scrambles for a few of his 122 yards after the hit by Scott Roberts (56) Clemson Deposes Deacons By Charles Benaett ATHENS Ga There were no foundering chants floating down from Sanford Stadium's upper deck to beckon Florida Before chanting rolled around most everyone had left Many of those among the 81407 who had retreated wanted an early jump on homecoming parties convinced foe game was safely salted away Those who stayed saw Georgia put the finishing touches on a 563 rout of winless Tulane that drove many hardcore fans to foe record books The victory was 20th in 22 homecomings under Vince Dooley It was the most points scored by a Georgia team since last 6235 victory over Vanderbilt It was widest margin of victory since pasting The Citadel 76-0 in 1956 But more importantly it gave foe Bulldogs much needed momentum heading into next week's showdown with Florida Last year Georgia was lethargic at homecoming struggling to beat Memphis State and then lost their last three games of foe year before stopping foe bleeding temporarily with a 17-17 Florida Citrus Bowl tie with Florida State talked about quarterback James Jackson said wanted to get some momentum for foe rest of the month This was going to initiate foe start of what we hope to be a great November season way we see it we are starting a whole new season in November We had to play well today because you play flat and then expect to go into a game with Florida with only remember what you do in freshman defensive end Aaron Chubb said coaches drilled into our heads all week that this was November and we had to prove ourselves all over again anff show people what we can do" What the Bulldogs proved Saturday was their running game remained strong they can pass when the quarterbacks have time and they can score at will on an undermanned defense With nine players carrying the ball Georgia rushed for 345 yards Tim Worley led the way with 67 yards He scored three touchdowns two rushing and one receiving Three quarterbacks completed 16of-14 passes for 179 yards Jackson was 5-of-7 for 105 yards The Bulldogs scored on nine of their 12 possessions Defensively Chubb and company held foe Green Wave to nine yards net rushing started early and never gave Tulane an opportunity to get in the football Dooley said played alert on defense and took advantage of field position you play that way going to have that result I'm sorry foe score ended up as it did but I do feel like it gave all our players an opportunity to play" Dooley dug so far down the depth chart No 3 quarterback David Dukes and seldom-used tailback Ronnie Hammonds scored touchdowns and Richard Tar-dits a freshman defensive end from France had a sack Striking early and often the Bulldogs built a 31-3 halftime lead despite having foe ball nearly six minutes less than Tulane The Bulldogs had six possessions in the first half and scored on five of them They could've been a perfect 6-for6 had Worley not fambled at the Tulane 27 you saw today was an absolute whipping in See Bulldogs Page 4C just seem to come up with the big play offensively I take some of the blame for that I threw a couple of passes I have thrown and I missed some Wake QB Mike Elkins let the reprieve supplied by famble go to waste Clemson drove 92 yards in 11 plays with quarterback Rodney Williams throwing foe first touchdown pass of his career a 13-yarder to wide receiver Terrance Roulhac was a mixup on their Roulhac said referring to foe coverage on foe play just ran by him and Rodney threw it up That gave Clemson a 26-10 lead with 12:02 to play and foe Deacons would not manage so much as another first down until their final drive of foe game which stalled as time ran out on the Clemson 7 just couldn't seem to come up with foe big play Elkins said "I take some of foe blame for that I threw a couple of passes I have thrown and I missed some The Tigers miss too many receivers however because there was no need to throw foe footbalL Tailbacks Kenny Flowers and Stacey Driver each rushed for more than 100 yards with Flowers accounting for 144 yards and Driver 122 Clemson outgained Wake Forest 472-285 in total offense with 306 of foe yards coming on foe ground Flowers meanwhile scored Clem- See Tigers Page 6-C CLEMSON Sometimes the big play in a game just isn't that hard to spot and such was the case in Clemson's 26-10 victory over Wake Forest Saturday When Wake Bruce Mark intercepted a Clemson pass to put the Deacons in business at the 8-yard line late in the third quarter it seemed to be the kind of break that turns a game around Trailing 19-10 the Deacons had a chance to get back in the game with a score And while the interception was a big play it only served to make the next play even bigger Wake Forest quarterback Mike Elkins fambled the snap on the first play from scrimmage and Clemson nose guard Mark Drag recovered on the It turned out to be the last serious threat the Deacons would make until the Tigers had the game well in hand "A big big Clemson Coach Danny Ford said up 19-10 they score there to make it 19-17 and I can just see us losing on a field Fortunately for the Tigers Drag came up with the play that kept Ford's dark thoughts from becoming a reality With the victory which came in front of a crowd of 70000 at Clemson Memorial Stadium the Tigers are 5-3 overall and 4-1 in the Atlantic Coast Confer- ence The Deacons losers of five straight are 3-6 and 0-5 Wake Forest Coach A1 Groh elaborate on the famble but he seemed confident that he knew what the problem was "I think I know what happened on the fambled Groh said need to look at the films on that one But I think the odds were pretty good that we would have been in foe end zone which would have changed the Elkins meanwhile left no doubt as to what happened on theplay that was the big play of the said Elkins a red-shirt freshman starting for the second time in his career just tried to pull away from the center too And foe Tigers whose only points to that point of foe second half came on a 41-yard David Treadwell field goal Payoff Accusations Shaking People Up CLEMSON been reading lot of stuff lately about college he said and he sat there for a moment Saturday in 'Littlejohn Coliseum shaking his head He didn't say anything for several minutes but he didn't have to When you've spent your youth following in footsteps you understand the meaning behind a subtle head-shake He had driven 250 miles through gloomy weather Saturday morning to watch one of his Conner players participate in the Clemson basketball scrimmage Like most high school coaches Friday night football had kept him busy until well alter midnight tired" he said "I think I got to sleep around 2:30 Then I had to get up to get here on While he watched the scrimmage his two children played at his feet Both wore Clemson orange and both occasionally yelled when the player they came to know in high school did well in the practice what college sports are supposed to be about Young children pulling for young athletes Somehow things have changed "I had somebody at my school ask me how much I was getting on this the high school coach said He shook his head again been hearing a lot of that lately" what happens to high school coaches when a top player leaves the state to play college basketball Accusations fly Rumors begin High school coaches get gray hair This coach caught it from both ends He handled the recruiting for two of his state's top prospects The recruiting was intense and he saw it alL He had some stories to tell because there was an unspoken trust that those stories wouldn't be printed "You know he said the NCAA came down they wanted to know about whal Clemson and Georgia did while they were recruiting alL Clemson and Georgia I asked them why they ask me about North Carolina North Carolina recruited (my player) too They said know Dean Smith's He shook his head again He watched the scrimmage for a few minutes gathered his thoughts and continued me tell you what I heard this he said had one guy who started telling people he saw (my player) in town last week driving a new car I know why he did it He wanted (my player) to go to another school so he's telling this guy and hoping he'll tell another guy so it will spread all over town "To begin with (my player) at home last week and I know better about a new car I'm sitting here right now wondering if (my mother will be able to pay the light bill this There was no sarcasm in his voice No big attempt at exaggeration He explained that his player had grown up in somewhat of a needy environment There was not a lot of money then There isn't a lot of money now you think about illegal recruiting (my player) would have been a prime target" said the high school coach really bothered me I could see anybody knocking on his door and offering anything And who knows what could have happened? That's why I told him and his mother not to talk to anyone but The conversation was interrupted when his player missed a layup in the scrimmage game A pained look crossed the coach's face It was obvious that he wants his player to do well at Clemson And in life you talk to him a the coach was asked Wednesday he said the night I call him He seems to be doing OK but he was concerned earlier this week about a mechanical drawing test They brought in a tutor to work with him and he made a What about his social life? you the truth I don't think he's been out much because he doesn't have the money to go said the coach find him in the dona room on Saturday nights -1 gave him S20 foe last tinm he was home And 111 continue to give him as much as I can But I wish the NCAA would allow the players like (my player) an allo- gc Furman Puts Cloud Over Mars Hill Furman turned those statistics into a 24-10 halftime lead and ultimately a 34-10 victory Although there was no symbolic sunshine to accompany feat quarterback Bobby Lamb insisted victory alone was enough Mars ranked 10th in the NAIA poll dropped to 6-2 with foe loss while Furman No 2 in foe Division I-AA poll won its seventh consecutive game for an 61 record And as Lamb noted Furman moved to 1-1 against NAIA competition were well prepared for this game" said Lamb who completed 19-of-30 passes for 246 yards Hill had beaten Newberry and Newberry is the only team beaten us So we had a little extra incentive looked at it like we were the best team in foe Southern Conference right now and we want to lose to another NAIA team But Mars Hill played us tough and several of our guys got banged Lamb received minor injuries including a twisted knee sprained ankle and a split chin But for Chas Fox Furman's all-time leading receiver and foe leading receiver in the Southern Conference foe diagnosis was much more severe Fox went down early in foe third quarter and did not return Fox is going to be out for the rest of foe said Furman Coach Dick Sheridan took a blow to foe knee and it looks like liga-See Furman Page 10-C By Jim Gilstrap Staff Sparti Writer GREENVILLE Beneath the mass of fog and cloudy skies Saturday at Paladin Stadium one thing became all too dear Mars Hill be another Newberry another NAIA stumbling block in otherwise successfal season The visiting Lions tried their best however and turned two Furman mistakes into a brief 10-7 lead late in foe first quarter The Paladins then became serious and put both Mars Hill and foe ghost of Newberry to rest The Furman offense was successfal on 11 consecutive third-down conversions in the first half while foe Paladins' defense didn't allow Mars Hill a first down in the second quarter Chai Fox Injured Knee Wolfpack Edges Past Gamecocks By Jim Rice Writer bowl rings so I feel that I need to do foe very best I can for foe Ironically those tipped passes also apparently cost the Gamecocks 4-4 their hopes for bowl rings are kind of disheartening right South Carolina Coach Joe Morrison said we'd won I think we would have had a real good chance for a said safety Chris Majqr who lost the chance to be the hero despite two interceptions including one for a touchdown I don't think well have a North Carolina State seem to have much of a chance after Major returned John pass 48 yards for a touchdown that gave South Carolina a 17-6 lead with 726 left in the game It appeared that the Gamecocks who had done almost nothing offensively to deserve a victory would escape North Carolina State which entered the game with a 1-7 record and a reputation of finding a way to COLUMBIA The tipped pass has been a symbol of frustration for the North Carolina State University football team this season On Saturday it became a symbol of persevere nee Wide receiver Haywood Jeflires turned a tipped pass into a touchdown and defensive back Jeff Gefoers turned another one into a last-second victorysaving play Together they allowed foe Wolf-pack to snap a five-game losing streak with a come-from-behind 21-17 victoiy over foe University of South Carolina in front of 69100 at Williame-Brice Stadium or later the ball had to bounce our way" North Carolina State Coach Tom Reed said who spoke from the experience of 26 turnovers in eight previous games name it it has happened to us this season injuries close calls bad breaks "It feels very very good At this point of the season there will be no iij USCs Mike Hold (7) gets rid of the ball as Wolfpack defender Mark Franklin (48) bears See Page 7-C.